Taking the fear out of wine making part 3 – Cheating and improving
The wine you made in Part 2 is by no means great. It’s OKish, but it has lots of faults. Think for a moment about drinking a reasonably good wine made from grapes. What are […]
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Taking the fear out of winemaking part 2 – By MKG
Part 1 – Getting rid of the fairy stories – is available here. Messing around in a bucket Those somewhat fictitious “traditional” ancestors of ours made wine in anything they could find. Usually, they would […]
Taking the fear out of wine making part 1 – By MKG
Getting rid of the fairy stories If I said to a fairly representative group “Take some fruit juice, squeeze some lemon juice into it, empty a bag of sugar into it, top up to about […]
Nettle Beer – Andy Hamilton
Nettle Beer This is an easy recipe to follow and creates a delightful, if not usual tasting beer. It is very cheap to make and follows a traditionally english recipe. Before hops were widely used […]
Homebrewing on the cheap
When we are skint (poor, broke, brassit) many of us will like to have a glass of something to take our mind off it. Just because we have a book out does not make us […]
Dandelion flower wine By Robert Helms
Dandelions are considered to be weeds, but the brightness of their color always makes me want to make use of these weeds to my advantage. You do not have to go very far and sooner […]
Yarrow Ale – A true Ale – By Andy Hamilton
The dictionary definition of ale is often wrong, confusion arises as most places have differing definitions. However, a true Ale is one that had been brewed using something in place of hops in this case […]
Simple (and cheap) beer made with real hops
The beauty of this beer is that you can forage or grow one of the key ingredients of it, namely the hops. If you look to your right you will see my hop plants happily […]
Elderberry Wine – Extract from the Self sufficientish Bible
THE ELDERBERRY WINE RECIPE – taken from The Selfsufficientish Bible published by Shodder and Stoughton Our parents, who are fortunate enough to have an elder tree at the bottom of their garden, have tried various […]
Pear Wine – Andy Hamilton
Dave and I were sitting having a meeting the other day (End of August) and we noticed a massive pear tree laden with pears from the window. Straight after the meeting we ran out to […]